Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Heartaches Pilot 10: Revision and thanks

A stray mutt enters the scene. He's curious as to who's asleep. There's just one way to find out.He recognizes the spoor - and yet something's not quite right.It dawns on the nose what the added sweet tinge of the odor signifies. This causes a jubilant indian dance.He summons all his buddies to share the happy news.Everyone scrambles and butts in each other's way to enjoy a whiff of the romantic waft.I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the cartoons and to the cartoon school.

I'd much rather animate this stuff and show it to you, but since no network is buying right now, this is the only way I can show you any of my million stories, so thanks! Y'know, I get over 10,000 folks peering in every day at this stuff. Just as a mathematical theory, if everyone chipped in 5 0r 10 bucks (or more or less) every couple weeks or once a month, I could animate some of these cartoons and just put them online in glorious color, sound and motion and skip the whole bureaucracy of TV. - just a thought. YOU HAVE THE POWER, PEOPLE

If I could I would. I'm on a fixed income, ect, ect. I think it's a privilege to come here and view the creative process. If I lived around the neighborhood, I would be hitting you up for a job. As you once told me, I remind you of the old MAD MAGAZINE artist. In the mean time, I have learned a lot from you. It's a dirty shame that the entertainment industry is at a point, where no one wants any new and creative products that are ready to go. Don't ever give up. It's like you have the learned experience and combined talents of all the greats, from cartoon past. Thank you John, for being you.

That dog dance cracked me up completely. How can the networks not like this stuff or even want this on the air? I'm surprised that none of them, not Nickelodeon mor Cartoon Network, have been saying, "Let's get that Ren and Stimpy guy loose, so that he can make some funny cartoons for us and put us on the ratings map!" Common sense doesn't seem to exist anymore for most people.

Nowadays, it seems like the times are getting even more difficult. If I had any money, I would definitely contribute, but I just never can find the money at the right time.

I don't know so much about it, but some discs and movies have been produce that way and got success.So why not a cartoon series.You have develop such a community of fans around your blog. This kind of financing looks like made for you.this web site seems to have a good reputation :

Funding can be raised via a subscription method, as well as by accepting donations.

Create something worth subscribing to at $5/month that you haven't already given away for free. Hell, if you did that, I'm sure you could attract investors and not have to depend on networks or donations at all.

It really, sincerely, breaks my heart not being able to contribute to this blog I am using long a go and is helping me a lot, more than my actual school. It´s not basically economic, you know, I have no credit card or a source of income of my own; my parents whipped me if I asked them to donate money -in dollars- through her credit card to some person's website from the otherside of the world, they wouldn't understand. Of course, I'm swearing I'll make my contribution immediately when I get the chance. Untill then, Im very sorry. My apologies to you.

A lot of very different projects there. A cartoon is going to have a very different sort of backer-crowd behind it than, for example, an open source personal web server (the 'Diaspora' project).Whether different means more people willing to back you or less, or more or less charitable backers I don't know.

And of course it takes work (spreading the word and convincing people to fund the project) and time and luck/coincidence.

Maybe you should get together with some of your hip young friends who know something about this and get them to explain it to you (or read up on it yourself on the Kickstarter website (link here. Think about it. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. There's certainly no harm in trying.

If people here are TRUE John K fans, then they gotta chip in more to see this amazing crap get animated. "Times are tough" is no excuse. I'm barely making it by myself these days, but I LOVE cartoons, so I figure out ways to cough up a few extra bucks every once in a while to see this stuff stay alive.

If internet funding is the way forward then you need to kick up a fuss and get more people reading this amazing blog.

So why don't the TEN THOUSAND-ISH PEOPLE who view this blog start raving about how brilliant it is on other websites, facebook groups etc. even those online petitions, anything as long as you get people to read this blog.

There must be enough animation students alone to help fund something like this, never mind cartoon fans.

If 90's cartoons are due to come back in demand (as the 70's & 80's ones have), let's remind people to pine for good ol' 'Ren & Stimpy'.

John you should put up a meter with the target amount of money to make the cartoon. So we can throw in money and watch in anticipation as it rises to cartoon time. I'd pay a hundred bucks to see a Kasper the unfriendly bear cartoon.

There are many talented student artists that visit this blog as evidenced by the artwork they've posted. Maybe some of them wouldn't mind working on the cartoon for free. The experience alone would be valuable. Of course it might be difficult to give exact instructions without being in the same room. Also it probably wouldn't be ideal to do this for an entire series, maybe more for just a test episode to see how things go.

I love this blog and I have gotten so much out of it. I also plan to donate as soon as I can- I am going though some huge and expensive life changes right now, but definitely want to be a part of funding this incredible source of knowledge, history and- most of all- the lessons.

Have you thought about a subscription model? The John K Cartoon Club- $5/month to see what John has cooking, in animated form. It would put on pressure to produce on a regular basis, but it might also give you a better idea of what you could afford based on a continuous revenue stream. I know a lot of cartoon fans and illlustrators like myself would love something like that.

It's unbelievable that someone as respected and with proven success as you can't afford to do what he does best, meanwhile Seth MacFarlane was given almost an entire night's worth of prime-time network television.

Hey John,I was checking out kickstarter.com, and it looks pretty promising to fund your cartoons. Has anyone contacted you yet to help get things going through kickstarter if you decide to start one?

If so, I'd be willing to donate a lot of my time to help with this project. I think putting together a team of people to do non-stop promoting through all the various social network websites would create a ton of buzz and interest.

I work as a graphic artist at lame upscale natural foods grocery store, so I have some know how on graphic design, and I can help create some material, i.e. web banners, to spread around the internet.

There are older folks out there who, aside from donations, might be willing to contribute some free time and effort to help a project like this. They already have the software and tools, but nothing to use them on (not all that much animation work available these days - one reason why I'm testing games!).

How would they go about offering their services for something like this? Who would they contact?

These are true signs of tough times if nobody will employ the brilliant John Kricfalusi. Sickens me to think of all the money being wasted on pure crap that's on tv now. While I'd hate to see this blog die, it's hard to argue your time wouldn't be better spent getting paid to make some awesome cartoons.